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title: The two poor women, in their humble vehicle drawn by two black oxen,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The two poor women, in their humble vehicle drawn by two black oxen, travel fearlessly through the dangerous sunken road and through the darksome forest. Who acts: two poor women. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 49

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The two poor women, in their humble vehicle drawn by two black oxen, travel fearlessly through the dangerous sunken road and through the darksome forest.

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**Who acts:** two poor women · **What happens:** draw, travel · **To what, where:** humble vehicle, dangerous sunken road

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two poor women), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:12:49
# text = The two poor women, in their humble vehicle drawn by two black oxen, travel fearlessly through the dangerous sunken road and through the darksome forest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	travel	travel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	fearlessly	fearlessly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	sunken	sunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	darksome	darksome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | participle |  | merchants's humble vehicle *not said here* |  |  |  | by two black oxen | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **travel** | infinitive | the two poor women in merchants's humble vehicle |  |  | the dangerous sunken road and the darksome forest |  | fearlessly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through road=Trajectory |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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